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Tue February 18, 2014

Journalist Sues Police Who Questioned Drone Use

A journalist has filed a lawsuit alleging Connecticut police violated his free-speech rights when they questioned him for using a drone to take pictures of a car wreck.

Pedro Rivera's federal complaint was filed Tuesday against the Hartford Police Department. It says officers demanded that he stop flying the remote-controlled aircraft and told his employer that he had interfered with a police investigation.

The lawsuit says that Rivera was suspended from his job at WFSB-TV as a result. Rivera is an on-call employee for the Connecticut television station but he was not working for them when he recorded the accident scene on Feb. 1.